Romans 2

 

1 Therefore, you are without excuse, O (vain) man, whoever you are that judge: for in (the same things) which you judge another, you condemn yourself (in your own heart), because you that judge do the same things.

 

2 But we are sure that the judgment of God (revealed from heaven) is according to truth (taking vengeance) upon (the death and unrighteousness in) them which do such things.

 

3 And do you think this, O (vain) man, who judge them which do such things (under the sway of death), and (yet you who) do the same (being animated by the same death), that you shall escape the judgment of God?

 

4 Or do you despise the riches of (the mercies of God) His kindness and forbearance and long-suffering (to conform you into His image, so that you might partake of His likeness); not knowing that it is the goodness (kindness and mercy) of God that leads you to repentance?

 

5 But because of the hardness and unrepentance of your heart (to see God’s mercy toward you), your judgment stores up to yourself wrath against (yourself to condemn you in) the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

 

6 Who will render to every man (Jew or Gentile) according to the deeds (of their own heart, whether according to the flesh unto corruption or the Spirit unto life):

 

7 To those who (rest from their own work), (but receive the strength to endure) with patience by continuing in well doing, seeking for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life (looking to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ):

 

8 But to them that are contentious (standing opposed to the mercy and judgment of God unto life and immortality), and do not obey the truth (revealed in Christ and Him crucified to the world and the world to them), but obey (the will of the flesh unto) unrighteousness, indignation, and wrath,

 

9 Tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man that does evil (by continuing in labors and hardships to establish their own corruptible lives), to the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

 

10 But glory, honor, (mercy) and peace to every man that works good (by looking to the faith of Jesus Christ), to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:

 

11 For there is no respect of persons with God.

 

12 For as many as have sinned (rejecting the mercy of God) without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned (rejecting the mercy of God contained) in the law shall be judged by the law (written on their heart);

 

13 {For it is not the hearers of the law who are just before God, but the doers of the law who (continue looking to the One who promised His life to obtain mercy) shall be justified.

 

14 For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, who do not have the law, are (making) a law to themselves:

 

15 Which reveals the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts all the while (judging), accusing or else excusing one another;}

 

16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men (hearts) by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

 

17 But if you are called a Jew, and rest (relying) upon the law, and make your boast in God (alone),

 

18 And know His will, and approve the (genuine) things (of Him) that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

 

19 And are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

 

20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, who possesses the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

 

21 Therefore, you who teach another, do you not teach yourself? you that preach a man should not steal, do you steal?

 

22 You that say a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? you that detest idols, do you defile yourself with other gods?

 

23 You that make your boast in the law, through your transgression of the law, do you dishonor God?

 

24 For (by these things) the name of God is slandered among the Gentiles by you, as it is written.

 

25 For circumcision truly (only) profits, if you keep the law (through faith toward God and not reliance upon the flesh): but if you be a transgressor of the law (through the weakness of your dying flesh), your circumcision is made uncircumcision.

 

26 Therefore, if the uncircumcision observes the righteousness of the law (with faith toward God in his heart), shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

 

27 And shall not (their) uncircumcision, which is by nature, if it fulfills (the spirit of) the law, judge you, who by the letter and circumcision do transgress the law?

 

28 For one is not a Jew, who is one outwardly (in the flesh); neither is that (true) circumcision, which is outward in the flesh (but in the heart):

 

29 But one is a Jew, who is one inwardly (in his heart); and (true) circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter (through the flesh); whose praise is not in (the strength of) men, but in (the power of) God.